It's been a week since President Ben Ali jumped on a plane and fled the country he ruled with an iron grip for 23 years. The interim president is a member of the same ruling party, so is the 'unity government' just a new name for the old regime?

Riazat Butt, is joined by Middle East editor Ian Black, deputy editor of the Economist Intelligence Unit Ayesha Sabavala and the Observer's foreign affairs editor Peter Beaumont to ask what the new political landscape will look like in Tunisia.

How much can be read into the role of social networking in the Jasmine revolution? How will former colonial rulers France react to a change of leadership in Tunis?

Other countries in the Magreb region have been watching the developments in Tunisia closely. The panel debates whether the uprising could be replicated eleswhere.